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To: D. Long who wrote (214785)	8/6/2007 2:43:52 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793991

But you don't have the right to get government to put a gun to someone's head to change their behavior by force. That's the difference between government and private insurance. Huh? You have a real fruit salad there. That line you're drawing is a figment. You'd need a matrix of mandate type vs. insurance kind to frame the possibilities. There are a variety of authorities that may effect mandates and three large groupings of insurance, individual, employee, both private, and government. Passing laws is one level of mandate. Yes, we can make bottle feeding flat out illegal. If we do, then no one gets to bottle feed. It doesn't matter what kind of insurance you have. Or we can insert bottle feeding into other types of laws, like divorce law. Again, the kind of insurance is irrelevant. Other authorities can issue mandates within their jurisdictions. Local health departments can disallow free formula or child care providers may disallow formula. Even a powerful family head may disallow bottle feeding in his household. Kind of insurance is irrelevant. Providers of insurance can mandate behaviors for their clients. That would apply to insurance companies with individual clients, employers, or the government. If you want to be insured by them, you follow their rules. Duh. Works the same for both private and government insurance although it affects only those in certain plans. Then there are the various societal pressures. Short of mandates. This would include the advocate in the hospital or someone like Iktomi or your grandma, anyone who makes a woman who wants to bottle feed feel bad. Or a breast feeding advocacy group who puts up billboards. Or your doctor. Again, it doesn't matter what kind of insurance you have. In all those cases, whether insurance is private or government, members of the pool have motivation to change the behaviors of their fellow pool members at the cost of exclusion from coverage. It hardly matters to the party effectively excluded if it was the government or private.